Why does this political video look like a video game… and why it worries me
Guys, this is the video that gamifies the war posted on the white house's official account on X. It's not just bad taste, it's propaganda. The American government's goal is to normalize the war by exploiting the social and video game aesthetic, making it light and playful.
Thus, it alters people's perceptions, making them insensitive to such devastation. This erodes, indeed destroys, the culture of nonviolence, and therefore those in government will no longer have opposition to it. If people are insensitive, the government will be able to impose its unfiltered, forceless worldview, because citizens already accept it.
With insensitivity, you reduce resistance to conflict, making it the primary solution to problems. This makes war, in people's eyes, the only viable way to change a problematic situation. It's frightening. Think about it, this way they facilitate the recruitment of young people who, subjected to such propaganda on TV and social media, will associate real war with video games.
Young people are easily manipulated and therefore risk dehumanizing the enemy, losing empathy for their victims, who will become merely a digital target transposed into reality. It's a very serious manipulation of the narrative by Trump's staff, gradually shifting the bar toward authoritarianism, but not the classic authoritarianism we've become accustomed to in the past, but a more subtle and manipulative version. This is dangerous, and I'm deeply disgusted.
I'm curious to know what you think.
